Internet Safety Lessons: Please look this over and decide who will be teaching this to students. It is mandated by the State of Illinois that all students will be part of an Internet Safety class. It is important that students complete these lessons at the beginning of the year so that we are all on the same page as the year progresses.
Use a VoiceThread to write a story, create an art gallery, post a poem, get responses to any question, demonstrate a math concept or pose a math problem to solve
Edmodo is a secure online classroom environment for posting messages, assigning, collecting and grading homework and quizzes, and sharing resources with students.
Information about Edmodo can be found on the district's Instructional Technology wiki page. Edmodo Rollout Resources - A great place to begin
The School code for Hauser is ceepft
The Group Code for our 1:1 group is 65dagb.
Resources for Edmodo can all be found in our Edmodo Group.
3. Stations: Open Office and Google Forms
Station Groups
Group 1: Noah, Tracy, Julie, Laura, Chris
Group 2: Claire, Peter, Jennie, Derek, Dana, Lauren
Station One (Liz):
Introduction to Open Office - Learn how to use the program many students use for word processing.
Station Two (Paula):
Google Forms - Learn to use Google Forms to communicate with students and to collect all sorts of data.
Examples of teacher Google Forms Movie Rating Form Data Collection - Event
Creating, Editing and Sharing Forms; Themes; Question types; Summary of Responses A Form to Introduce you to Forms
Google Form from Liz
4. Lunch
5. Laptop Tools to Support Instruction- Paula
Screen Capture, QuickTime
(Liz's Tagxedo from our Google Form results)
6. Work Time
7. Reflections in GarageBand
What impacted you as a teacher in the last 2 days? What have you learned? What do you want to implement this year?
Open GarageBand and select Podcast or Voice; give your file a name and select Create;
Click to select either the Male Voice or Female Voice track (it should be blue if selected);
Click the red Record button to record a reflection about the last two days of PD, including what you learned that you can implement with your students.
From the Share menu, select Send Podcast to iTunes (or send Song to iTunes).
At the next window, make sure that the Compress setting is set to MP3 Encoder:
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* Need: Headsets and Voicethread accounts
Drop Boxes
iWeb: adding documents, creating links
Internet Safety Lessons (Paula)
Internet Safety Lessons: Please look this over and decide who will be teaching this to students. It is mandated by the State of Illinois that all students will be part of an Internet Safety class. It is important that students complete these lessons at the beginning of the year so that we are all on the same page as the year progresses.
1. Mis Computer Communication with VoiceThread (Liz)
Join a VoiceThread and tell us about your most embarasing mishap using a computer.
What is VoiceThread?
A web based application that allows a group to have a conversation around a piece of media such as a picture or movie.
Your VoiceThread account is your district96 email address with a password: welcomehauser (you may want to change this)
Try this link to join the VoiceThread.
Use a VoiceThread to write a story, create an art gallery, post a poem, get responses to any question, demonstrate a math concept or pose a math problem to solve
Digital library of articles about successful VoiceThread Project by teachers
District 96 Voicethread Go here to log into your account.
What is a VoiceThread?
What is Ed.VoiceThread?
2. Edmodo (Paula)
Edmodo is a secure online classroom environment for posting messages, assigning, collecting and grading homework and quizzes, and sharing resources with students.Information about Edmodo can be found on the district's Instructional Technology wiki page.
Edmodo Rollout Resources - A great place to begin
The School code for Hauser is ceepft
The Group Code for our 1:1 group is 65dagb.
Resources for Edmodo can all be found in our Edmodo Group.
3. Stations: Open Office and Google Forms
Station Groups
Group 1: Noah, Tracy, Julie, Laura, ChrisGroup 2: Claire, Peter, Jennie, Derek, Dana, Lauren
Station One (Liz):
Introduction to Open Office - Learn how to use the program many students use for word processing.
OpenOffice Demonstration Document
Google Forms - Learn to use Google Forms to communicate with students and to collect all sorts of data.
Examples of teacher Google Forms
Movie Rating Form
Data Collection - Event
Creating, Editing and Sharing Forms; Themes; Question types; Summary of Responses
A Form to Introduce you to Forms
Google Form from Liz
4. Lunch
5. Laptop Tools to Support Instruction - Paula
Screen Capture, QuickTime(Liz's Tagxedo from our Google Form results)
6. Work Time
7. Reflections in GarageBand
What impacted you as a teacher in the last 2 days? What have you learned? What do you want to implement this year?